Just
take a good look in the mirror and you will see the problem with America.
It is not Obama, Bush, the “progressives,” or the government
that is messing up this country.

It
is us. It is the un-holy trinity of Me, Myself, and I that is responsible
for America’s demise.

With
all deference to Flip Wilson, it is not the Devil who made us do it.
We give him waaay to much credit…the Devil that is. Most of the
mess we find ourselves in is self-imposed. We did it to ourselves, or
as I often tell our football players, we are our own worst enemy.

Heck,
truth be told, most of us don’t need the Devil to mess us up.
We do a good enough job of that ourselves. We love to give him the credit,
but unfortunately we are ultimately the one’s responsible for
our behavior. The Apostle
Paul told us:

“But
foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all
men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that
oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance
to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves
out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

We
oppose ourselves…what a unique perspective. The mess we are in
is a mess that we caused.

American’s
love to blame somebody else for our failures; “Kill the ump,”
“Throw the bums out,” “The refs cheated,” “I
wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth,” “My
parents neglected me,” “I was abused as a child,”
“I refused to sleep my way to the top,” It is those darn
democrats.”

Stop
blaming the boogey man. Man up and take responsibility for your own
actions. Our irresponsibility got us into this mess and only our personal
responsibility can get us out of it.

Yep.
We have been our own worst enemy.

We
love to blame the “culture” for the sinful behavior of our
citizens when we were the ones who permitted morality to be removed
from the education of our children. We are the one’s who permitted
our tax dollars to be spent destroying everything upon which this nation
was founded.

We
are the one’s who sat silently in the pews while the Word of God
was replaced by the seeker-sensitive, who-are-you-to-judge false gospel
emanating from the pulpit. It wasn’t the Devil who was preaching
the doctrine of demons, it was your pastor. He is still doing it today
as you dutifully sit on your butt and permit the “man of God”
to take a hands-off approach to the deviant-cation of society.

We
are the one’s who believed that we could immerse our children
into seven-hours-a-day training in the religion of Secular Humanism
in “public” schools while being foolish enough to believe
that a twenty-something “youth leader” was capable of undoing
the garbage we had permitted to be dumped into the skulls of the next
generation of leaders.

We
are the one’s who were so worried about the “socialization”
of our children that we ignored the exhortation to “train-up a
child in the way he should go” and were shocked when they chose
to go a different direction.

It
wasn’t the Devil. It was you and me. We are the ones who have
permitted our children to be stolen from us.

We
are the one’s who sat silently as the President of the United
States popularized “oral-sex” thereby granting permission
to every teenager in America to engage in the behavior because it was
“not really sex.” We re-elected him. He lied under oath
and we permitted him to remain in office. We agreed with James Carville
that it was “the economy, stupid.” We sowed to the wind
and we have reaped the whirlwind. It is the morality, stupid.

We
are the ones who bought into the lie that America would be better if
we voted into the office the “lesser of two evils.” How
is that working out for you today? We are the ones who swapped Christian
values for ‘conservative” values as if conservatism was
a religion unto itself on par with Christianity.

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We
are the one’s walking down the same path today as the political
system gives us a choice between a Muslim and a Mormon. According to
the Pew
Center, Less than 2% of Americans are Jewish, and less than 1% are
Muslim. None of those “great religions of the world” believe
in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We, the citizens of a nation where
nearly 80% of Americans self-identify as Christians, have permitted
“strange-Gods” to reign over us.

We
are the ones who have permitted our pulpits to teach the lie that “all
religions are the same.” We are the ones who have permitted our
pulpits to teach that Christians and Muslims serve the same God. We
are the ones who are responsible for permitting fellow Christians to
be separated and categorized by skin colors…as if a black Christian
and a white Christian have a different set of moral beliefs. Did you
know that most Mormon-converts are former members of other Christian
denominations?

We
are the ones who permitted Supreme Court opinions to be passed off as
law. We are the ones who have permitted over 50 million babies to be
aborted in the womb because we acquiesced to the “opinion”
of black-robed renegades. We are the ones who permitted the courts to
declare that there was a right to homosexual-sodomy and that sodomy-based
marriage was actually a civil right. The law never changed…only
the courts’ opinion did. It happened on our watch.

We
are the ones who accepted the court opinion that no-fault divorce was
a good thing. We are the ones who participated in putting asunder what
God had joined together. We are the ones who watched our children fall
into rebellion because of the infidelity of the parents to the vows
they voluntarily, before God, recited. We are the ones who permitted
these troubled young children to be drugged in government schools in
order to “calm them down.”

Take
a good look in the mirror. The Devil is laughing. He has spent the last
few decades on vacation. He didn’t have to oppose us because most
of us were doing a fine job of that all by ourselves.

We
are the ones who permitted the banishment of God into the utility closet.
We are the ones who permitted the death on the cross to be modified
from a live-changing venture to a life-enhancing add-on. We are the
ones who cheapened the resurrection into grace with our guilt, redemption
without repentance, and accepted Him as Savior apart from Lordship.

We
are the ones who promoted the killing of innocents around the world
in a continuous attempt to bring “liberty” by force, democracy
without Christianity, and peace apart from the Prince of Peace. We are
the ones who have followed the commandment to “love thy neighbor
as they self’ by use of the bunker-busting bomb.

We
are the ones who have not lived out the “religion” we profess
while screaming about the loss of religious freedoms. We are the ones
who have permitted children to be a choice, sodomy to be a life-style,
politicians to be dishonest, and morality and state to be separated.

We
are the ones who complain about the “government” yet turn
to the government for the latest congressional handout. We are the ones
who look at pornography and then lock-up at the porn-viewer who gets
caught. We are the ones who permit porn to be a declared free-speech
and watch helplessly while the mention of Christmas is removed form
our government schools.

We
are the ones who max out our credit cards and then lament government
debt. We are the ones who complain about politicians and then re-elect
our representative. We are the ones who complain about fatherless children
and then send our children into the government schools to be trained
by women.

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Christians
have been voting for pro-death, anti-religious candidates for years.
Fifty-four
percent of Catholics voted for Obama in 2008. Nearly half of evangelicals
did as well. This is the party of the ACLU the most anti-Christian organization
in America. This is the party of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Nancy Pelosi.
Now we complain about the loss of our “religious freedoms.”
Black Christians voted 90% for the most pro-abortion President in American
history just because he was black.

We
are the ones who permitted the teaching of self-esteem with out the
need for self-respect. We are the ones who gave trophies for participating,
took the score off of the scoreboard, and punished the champions. We
are the ones who permitted accomplishment to be called greed.

As
some wise man once stated, “We have met the enemy and it is us.”

Changing
the White House may bring temporary relief, but nothing is going to
change until we change our house. Judgment begins in the house of God.
Me, Myself, and I have been found guilty of sloth.

Coach Dave Daubenmire, founder
and President of Pass The Salt Ministries www.ptsalt.com
and Minutemen United www.minutemenunited.org,
is host of the high octane Pass The Salt radio show heard in Columbus,
Ohio.

In 1999 Coach Daubenmire was sued by the ACLU
for praying with his teams while coaching high school in Ohio. He now
spends his energy fighting for Christian principles in the public domain.